Carol L. Myers ~ Mixed Media Artist

I am honored and excited that my silk scarf is part of the Fiberart For A Cause Invitational Reverse Auction this year. Only nine artists are invited to participate each year and 100% of the money raised by the Reverse Auction is donated to theAmerican Cancer Society.The online Reverse Auction opens with a MUST BUY NOW option on Monday, May15 with the regular reverse Auction opening on Tuesday, May 16. All thedetails are here:http://www.virginiaspiegel.com/NewFiles/ARevAuction2006.htmlFiberart For A Cause has already raised $50,000 for the American CancerSociety and I have donated my artwork to this Reverse Auction in memory ofmy Father, Wm. Kyle Upton, to show my support for the AmericanCancer Society. More of my artwork can be seen on my website and blog- www.carollmyers.com and www.artflights.blogspot.com
Thank you.Carol L. Myers

I’m getting excited about my new web site, but now I have to get myself together to write my part. Oooh, that’s hard. And I will have to get organized and get my photos taken and ready. The design of the page is glorious! I had wanted a site that glows from within, and Gloria Hansen has done it again!

I am going through a very spiritual time with my work, it seems to be coming up from my very soul. But I find it a little embarassing to speak of it. If this website is to reflect who I am as an artist, then I have to find the words to put it out there into the universe. Risky and exhillarating all at the same time. I guess I need to trust the same source spirit that my work is flowing from and through.

Meanwhile, at the Indianapolis Art Center, the enthusiasm for the fiber dept. is growing. There will be great workshops this summer, which I will post here soon. And I am also setting up a blog for the art center’s fiber faculty and class information. When I figure out what to call it, I will put the link here on the blog.

For now, however, I have to clean up my home studio, then go do the same thing in my IAC studio.The clutter is becoming overwhelming.

Well, here I am on Sunday morning of my working weekend-I am still printing the pages for my little tea menus. I LOVE my Epson printer. And I have found that the Avery full page labels are my best friends!! I wasn’t looking forward to wrestling with freezer paper, so I was prepared to buy as many labels as I needed. It turns out you can keep reusing the labels, and it is SO much easier to stick them to the fabric than to iron and cut freezer paper. I think I’m in love. And they are the right size and feed through the printer like a dream. One more page to print, and I’ve already gotten some of them started. So next comes the assembly.

I’m in my home sewing studio (as opposed to my print and paint and messy studio at the Indianapolis Art Center) with skylights and windows to let the wonderful sunshine in!

And my own special joy-it is the beginning of nesting season, so I can watch the perigrene falcons downtown and the screech owls out in Texas as they raise there feathered families. I’m sure, at some point, that there is a bird series in me. But first, tea menus.

Can’t believe, as usual, that I’ve been this long between posts. I have been working!! I am working on two projects for the new Conrad Hilton that opens next week in downtown Indianapolis. At the end of today, I will have glued ultrasuede corners on the rest of the wooden menu holders that another artist created. Luckily, I only am respsonsible for 1 corner per board, to finish up.

Then this weekend, I’ll be making 36 fabric menus for their Tea menu. I think they are way cool, my design.

AND I’ve been working on haveing Gloria Hanson create a new website for me. The holding page is at www.carollmyers.com . I am VERY excited about that.

Looks like I don’t have a button to upload pics-I’ll do that later.

Also, more on the show in Bloomington, Indiana at Gallery North.

Here are two of the poscards that I did on canvas with water soluable oil pastels. They’ve been quilted and have a cardstock back. I’m not sure that the colors are as true as I would like-getting used to my new Epson cx4800. I love the way the canvas is stable for quilting, and the pastels don’t bother the quilting process at all.

I am SO excited. After waiting for my DS to make time for a rewrite of my site (he has written lots for me!!) I’ve decided to have Gloria Hanson and GloDerworks do it for me. I have been looking at all of the sites that she has designed-they seem infused with light, glowing and appealing to visit. So now, I just have to get everything written and together. I keep thinking that my next work will be more wonderful and worthy of the website, so at some point I’m just going to have to stop and photograph what I have, get it arranged and making sense. Scarey!

I’ve been quilting on the little canvas drawings that I made with water soluable oil pastels. I’m liking the canvas alot! (Thank you, Elizabeth Busch!!) When I have them all done, I will post them. Oh, I realize I might be able to scan them instead of photographing them. Whoohooo maybe I’ll get that done today.

Meanwhile, back to work-tea menus for the new Conrad Hilton here in town. Need a prototype.

I spent this afternoon (sunday) in my studio, making a gelatin plate to use tomorrow on Fox 59′s morning show. I’m on with several other artists representing the Indianapolis Art Center. I’ll be doing fabric printing with the gelatin plate on a silk scarf. I think our segement is all of 3 minutes, so I have no idea how much will get done. It is live-gulp-but it’ll be fun, I think.

I’m also getting excited about my new-ish position as head of the Fiber Dept at the Indianapolis Art Center (IAC www.indplsartcenter.org ) I hope we can get a core of excited fiber folks to teach and take our classes! I’m hoping to start a blog about the IAC, but first I have a few (million)other projects to get started or finished.

I’m sitting in the middle of my sewing studio, amazed at the chaos. I finished the 50th anniversary quilt, and it was a huge hit with my mother in law. I never got pictures, she bundled it up and put it in her pile of goodies, so as not to forget it. My daughter got some pictures, hopefully she will email me one. Okay, 9 1/2 years is a little long to have procrastinated! But my Pfaff Grand Quilter made the whole thing pretty easy, although I’m still on a learning curve. I don’t know if it will give me enough space to do my larger art quilts, but it made this queen sized quilt much easier to deal with. It takes lots less time to load up the frame then it does to baste with safety pins.

I have the urge to PITCH PITCH PITCH all of this STUFF! I’m trying to decide if I will regret ditching lots of things. Maybe I could drag it all over to the Indianapolis Art Center to use with classes. That way I could have it fairly close. Or not. Sigh.

I’ve joined the email list ‘Everyday Matters’ to encourage me to draw more. I’m not actually sure it is a good thing, as I spend way too much time on the computer as it is. And there are lots of messages, maybe as many as on Quiltart. Well, I can always skim and take what works.

Well, back to organizing and maybe pitching. Ribbon and yarn anyone?

I am trying to write a bio for the SAQA newsletter. It’s much harder than doing the work! I have already put it off for way too long. At least I’ve figured out which photo of me and my work will be okay. Now to just knuckle down and do it!!

I’m liking my Pfaff Grand Quilter, I’m about a third of the way to finishing the 50th anniversary quilt for my husband’s parents. It will be done for Christmas, never mind that this year is their 60th. The quilting won’t win me any awards, but they will be so excited to sleep under the memories, that it will be fine. When I get it off the frame, I will include a photo.

Speaking of anniversaries, friday will be my 33rd . Time does fly!!

My printing day with Maria was a blast, although we talked more than printed. I’m hoping a great show will come out of this. Look for details.